SAP Integrations Lead

Job title: SAP Integrations Lead

Contract: 3 months (possibility of extension)

Location: London (Hybrid)

As the Integrations Lead, you will provide a critical role for ensuring the success of a complex and large-scale SAP Finance Transformation within a major British multinational retailer. You will shape, plan, and deliver all Integration aspects of the Programme, enabling the migration of Finance capabilities from ECC to S/4HANA, and the decoupling of non-Finance capabilities to other business systems.

You will provide strategic leadership to ensure alignment in solution, delivery, and assurance of 100's of integrations in and out of S/4HANA and the phased cutover of integrations in and out of ECC to enable its eventual decommission. This role demands a hands-on delivery leader with strong technical competence, outstanding foresight, and the ability to navigate sophisticated, high-risk environments. You will foster collaboration across engineering, product, finance, architecture and vendor partners, driving continuous improvement and embedding a culture of accountability, compliance, and evidence-based decision making. You will ensure clarity and lead delivery of multi-team dependencies, and ensure technical and operational excellence across people, processes, and platforms to deliver secure, scalable, future-ready capabilities.

Key accountabilities, responsibilities, and measures

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the delivery of integrations required to support migration of Finance capabilities to S/4HANA, and enable the decoupling of non-Finance capabilities to other best-of-breed systems
• Ensure clarity and alignment of the end-to-end architecture and solution of new / amended integrations including service adaptors / legacy abstractions
• Closely track and lead Product/Program execution progress to deliver planned outcomes, through sync up events providing visibility and transparency on progress through appropriate cadence and tools
• Develop roadmaps and objectives and key results with Product Manager(s) and engineering teams to ensure alignment to strategic ambitions for M&S and driving a customer first mind-set in Tech
• Be responsible for and assure the technical development and release strategy, ensuring senior partners are advised and act as point of escalation for key risks and issues
• Drive proactive dependency management between Product functions or domains to confidently plan and deliver integrated solutions
• Implement strong quality assurance and continuous improvement processes to minimise risks to Program delivery
• Able to foresee potential risks and issues, facilitate discussion and handle partner concerns
• Responsible for the technology budget and driving value for money in the hardest working, most efficient way
• Drive the successful adoption of DevOps supporting in the triage and resolution of major incidents and collaborating with Engineering and Product to ensure operational success
• Work collaboratively with partners across business area(s) using deep and relevant technology experience to simplify complex technology issues
• Build trusted relationships with and effectively manage contractual obligations with vendors and other external partners to ensure successful delivery of outcomes
• Proactively evaluate industry, technology and delivery trends to demonstrate external findings and drive improvements internally
• Manage complex multi team Dependencies to deliver planned outcomes, through sync up events providing visibility and transparency on progress through appropriate cadence and tools

Key skills

Essential

• 5-10 years' Delivery experience Agile delivery frameworks and large-scale transformation programmes. Adapt at selecting the right framework/governance approach depending on the nature of the delivery.
• Experience building and leading teams within large, complex organisations
• Experience working with System Integrator partners in structured delivery environments
• Strong stakeholder management across Finance, D&T, and delivery partners
• Close to colleagues and closer to customers, working directly with end users to ensure the best fit deployment and adoption
• Willingness to get stuck in and drive progress especially cross functional and cross team
• An open mind and desire to think of new ways to do things rather than just sticking with the status quo
• Good organisation skills and focused approach to project activity
• Ability to understand operational data, metrics and performance measures
• Very confident in the use of Jira and Monday.com. Adapt at using the right tooling to drive progress across teams.
• A strategic problem-solver who challenges assumptions and drives innovative, technology-led approaches to improving quality and reducing operational risk.
• An outstanding partner manager, capable of influencing and engaging at all levels-including executive leadership, store operations, property, and finance

Desirable

• Exposure to or familiarity with SAP Retail concepts
• Experience with Agile delivery frameworks (e.g., Scrum, Kanban).
• Understanding of Retail industry operations and master data structures.
• Retail sector experience.

Personal Attributes

• A collaborative team player who enjoys problem-solving.
• Curious, proactive, and eager to drive change.
• Comfortable leading in a multi-disciplined team across internal/external resource, while adapting to shifting priorities.
• Customer-focused with a commitment to delivering high quality business outcomes.
• Ability to shape direction in ambiguity
• A passion for problem solving and collaboration